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WASH debuted as Washington's second commercial FM station at 6:30 p.m. on December 17, 1946. [12] W3XO had already been converted into Washington's first commercial station, originally as WINX-FM, and started regular broadcasts in September 1946.) [ 13 ] In the early era of FM broadcasting, most stations were co-owned with an AM station and ...
His maternal grandfather Pat Barnes was a Chicago-based radio host and World War I veteran. [5] After his father Jules died in 1960, his mother Barbara re-married in 1965 to journalist Bill Plante. [4] The family later moved to the Chicago area; Chris Plante later lived in Glenview and Winnetka, Illinois and graduated from New Trier West High ...
The Washington metropolitan area is currently the seventh-largest radio market in the United States. [1] While most stations originate within Washington, D.C. proper, this list includes also stations that originate from Northern Virginia and Annapolis, Maryland.
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Its call sign stood for "Washington High Fidelity Stereo" (WHFS), advertising that it was the first station in the Washington metropolitan area to broadcast in FM stereo. [1] It was originally located in a 20-by-20-foot (6.1 m × 6.1 m) space in the basement of the Bethesda Medical Building on Wisconsin Avenue with its antenna on the roof.
WTOP (1500 AM) was the Capitals' first radio home through the 1986–87 season. After nine years on WMAL (630 AM), the games returned to 1500 AM for the 1996–97 season. [3] Ron Weber was the first announcer, and he never missed a game through his retirement at the end of the 1996–97 season. [4]
It is one of the oldest radio stations in the Washington media market, continuously on the air from 1925. For most of its history, the station operated as WMAL; on July 1, 2019, its talk programming was moved exclusively to co-owned WMAL-FM at 105.9 MHz, which had simulcast with 630 am since 2011.
Plante's first marriage was to Barbara Barnes Orteig. [3] [4] Together, they had two children, as well as four sons from her previous marriage whom Plante adopted, [4] including future syndicated radio talk show host Chris Plante. [10] They eventually divorced and he later married Robin Smith in 1987. [4]